In the News (Thu 24 May 18)

Among the primary missions of the Pennsylvania StatePolice is the identification and reduction of vulnerabilities of the Commonwealth to terrorist attacks, and the minimization of damage should an attack occur.

The Pennsylvania StatePolice was created by an Act of the legislature which was signed into law by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker on May 2, 1905.

Pennsylvania StatePolice is An Internationally Accredited Law Enforcement Agency.

The New York StatePolice is the state's principal police agency, and is regarded as one of the most accomplished law enforcement organizations in the nation.

The Division of New York StatePolice (NYSP) is cognizant of the projected growth in the senior population, and acknowledges the importance of responding to the needs of this increasing segment of society.

The primary goal of the New York StatePolice in dealing with the aging population is to prevent victimization, arrest persons who commit crimes against the elderly, and respond to emergency situations.

In a policestate the police are not subject to the rule of law in an emergency and there is no meaningful distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.

Policestates tend to be very strict in authority, often dictatorships, though the South African apartheid system was also seen as a policestate while being notionally democratic (albeit with the majority of the population not participating in the democratic process).

Liberal democracy, with its emphasis on the rule of law, focuses on the fact that the policestate is unrestrained by law.

Twenty-three U.S. states actually call their statepolice by the term "StatePolice." In this case statepolice are general-power law enforcement officers with statewide jurisdiction, who conduct patrols and respond to calls for service and perform all the other aforementioned duties.

Exceptions are Alaska whose statepolice agency is referred to as Alaska State Troopers and Hawaii where the State of Hawaii Sheriff's Office acts as the state-wide law enforcement agency.

The Italian StatePolice is a national police agency which usually restricts its activities to the larger towns and cities of Italy, while the Carabinieri is active in small towns, rural and border areas.

The third StatePolice class of fifty recruits started training at the new school on April 1, 1922, and on July 1, forty-two men were sent out to fill the vacancies on the road.

The success of the New Jersey StatePolice may well be attributed to the theories adopted by Colonel Schwarzkopf who believed that the agency was not only an enforcement and apprehending agency, but that prevention, education, and service are equally important for the success of the mission of the organization.

Furthermore, it is believed that the training and duty of the members of the StatePolice should be made such that it develops men of character, men of reliability and gentlemen who enforce the law.

Once employed, a university police officer must attend a regional police academy where he or she trains along with law enforcement officers from municipal police departments, county sheriffs' departments, the Mississippi Department of Corrections, and other local or state law enforcement agencies.

State code § 67-1-37 prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages on the campus of any public school or college.

While the university police department cannot offer this level of service and protection, there are many garages and service stations in Starkville that can assist you when you have a problem with your vehicle.

This comes after revelations in January of direct NSA involvement with the Baltimore police in order to "protect" the NSA Headquarters from Quaker protesters.

I, for one, am reminded of my service in the policestate of the U.S.S.R., where there were no First or Fourth Amendments.

But the heads of the civilian, democratically elected institutions that are supposed to be our bulwark against an encroaching policestate, the ones who stand to lose their own power as well as their rights and the rights of all citizens, aren’t interested in reining in the power of the intelligence establishment.

As the police are unaccountable, whoever is selected for arrest is at the mercy of arbitrariness.

Americans may be unaware of what it means to be stripped of the protection of habeas corpus, or they may think police authorities would never make a mistake or ever use their unbridled power against the innocent.

www.lewrockwell.com /roberts/roberts127.html (1225 words)

Police Badges - State Troopers of America(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)

STATE TROOPERS of AMERICA is a new 414 page book with approximately 1,500 high resolution fl and white photographs relating to the state trooper of today and yesterday.

Written for primarily for serious memorabilia collectors and for the movie and TV industry producers as well as anyone interested in the statepolice of today and yesterday, the publication is great reference reading for anyone interested in the state trooper.

William Mauldin was the author and publisher of the old StatePolice and State Highway Patrol Badge Guide, now out of print after serving serious collectors and the movie producers all over the world with FIVE editions.

The police in Baghdad certainly feel that at last they have a government to their liking.

The presence of a new police station is not very good news for the neighbours, which include The Independent office, because police stations are a frequent target of ferocious attacks by suicide bombers, wholly careless of whom they kill.

The manner with which the police took over the old compound of Saddam's guards and evicted its inhabitants shows that they are regaining the swaggering confidence they had under the old regime.

Miami police Chief John Timoney must be mighty proud of the social order he maintained during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit a couple of weeks ago in Miami - sort of the way Saddam Hussein was proud of quieting dissension in his country.

Police could be forced to shoot members of the public to maintain order in the event of a "dirty bomb" or biological attack on Britain, it was claimed yesterday.

Police officers will be able to fingerprint and take a DNA sample from anyone they arrest under proposals announced yesterday by the Home Office.

The mission of the University Police Department of Texas State University-San Marcos is to provide for the safety and security of the students, faculty, and staff of the University and to the general public while on or in any property or facility of the University.

All university police officers are licensed as peace officers by the State of Texas.

University police officers are commissioned as peace officers by the Board of Regents of the Texas State University System under the authority of section 51.203 of the Texas Education Code.

This bill also directs the Department of StatePolice to develop a statewide child abduction alert plan (the Virginia Amber Alert Plan) to rapidly publicize information on a child abduction.

The bill provides that the Virginia StatePolice shall inform all local law-enforcement agencies operating or participating in the Amber Alert programs when this bill becomes law and shall offer them assistance in conforming their programs to the provisions of the bill.

Police officers participating in the collection of such traffic data and information have been granted civil immunity for acts and omissions during the performance of their official duties, absent gross negligence or willful misconduct.

Finally, in addition to enforcing state laws, university police officers are also responsible for assisting in enforcing university parking rules and regulations, Housing Department rules and regulations, and the Student Code of Conduct.

Generally, the complexity of late model vehicles requires a person with special training and who is bonded and insured to reimburse the motorist for any damage that may be caused to their vehicle while it is being serviced.

Resident assistants play a major role in reporting criminal activity in the residence halls and are required to keep a log of incidents occurring during their shifts.

Governor Rod R. Blagojevich announced today the launch of the Methamphetamine Manufacturing Registry, a new tool available on the Illinois StatePolice website, www.isp.state.il.us, that gives communities and law enforcement the opportunity to view the names of offenders who have been convicted of manufacturing meth.

In June 2006, the governor signed Senate Bill 2915 requiring the Illinois StatePolice to create the registry, have a link on the agency's webpage, and make it available to the general public and law enforcement.

The principal tool for sustaining a policestate, even the most militant, is always economic control and punishment by denying disobedient citizens such things as jobs or places to live, and by levying fines and imprisonment.

Community and individual state regulations are not as threatening as the monolith of rules and regulations written by Congress and the federal bureaucracy.

The states do exactly as they're told by the federal government, because they are threatened with the loss of tax dollars being returned to their state- dollars that should have never been sent to DC in the first place, let alone used to extort obedience to a powerful federal government.

In many cases, local police and military have worked together on martial law drills where they would take over small towns to indoctrinate people into a policestate and see how civilians would react to gross violations of the American Constitution.

The first police officer we spoke to assured us that these searches were legal in accordance with state law.

We are getting closer and closer to a PoliceState where questioning the police/government or sticking up for your rights puts you on the hitlist of the police department.

A policestate is "a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures." [1]

"The best-known literary treatment of the policestate is George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which describes life under a totalitarian régime that uses the constant presence of eternal war as a pretext for subjecting the people to mass surveillance, constraining both freedom of action and of thought." [2]

Some say that since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, especially with the passing of the Patriot Act I, the United States is becoming more and more of a policestate in that the government now has expanded powers to surveil and detain people it considers potential terrorists without due process.

For years we have warned that the policestate is coming, how Martial Law will become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and freedoms are being overturned and replaced with repressive mechanisms of control.

Whether it be a state attack, a terrorist attack, an accident or a natural disaster matters not anymore, the outcome will be the same.

In Alex Jones' feature PoliceState 2000 he covers Operation Urban Warrior where actors posed as American citizens who were Unconstitutionally seized from their homes by the military and police.

Police work came natural, and his talents were well suited to collecting information about members of groups that were enemies of the State.

When he was put in charge of the secret police he involved himself in the tracking down of potential opponents to the Fatherland.

The appeals court noted that the lower court's decision runs counter to the state attorney general's interpretation of the public records law, which states: "A decision to permit inspection [of public records] cannot be based on the identity of the requester or the stated purpose, if any, of the request."

batr.org /911/policestate.html (1923 words)

U.S. Police Agency Structure and Organization(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)

States also have special agencies or task forces separate from their statepolice or highway patrol; counties may have railroad or tribal police; and metropolitan cities may have special port, transit, causeway, housing, school, and/or capitol police.

In other states (Michigan for example), a statepolice agency may be assigned to a single city or county, and for all practical purposes, is a local police agency.

Some of the first StatePolice agencies were the Texas Rangers (1835), the Colorado Mounted Rangers (1861), the PA Capitol Police (1895), the Arizona Rangers (1901), the New Mexico Mounted Police (1905), but the Pennsylvania Constabulary (1905) are usually recognized in most textbooks as the first full-service, non-volunteer agency.

The Miami model is the very definition of a pervasive policestate based on the fear of terrorists and the fear of being identified as a terrorist if you do not comply with every demand, no matter how much it brutalizes every notion of what it is to live in a free society.

Yet the semi-retarded police chiefs and foot soldiers who salivate over the Miami model do so in the warped fundamentalist belief that they are protecting America from the evil Muslims.